Consulting Architect

Location

Mumbai | India

Job description

• The Red Hat India Services team is looking for a Consulting Architect to join us in Mumbai, India
• In this role, you will help us ensure that our engagements are not just a technology implementation, but an organizational transformation
• As a Consulting Architect, you will serve as the lead architect in our engagements, cocreating innovative software solutions using emerging open source technology and modern software design methods in an agile environment
• you'll coach the team and facilitate the design and technical delivery of our solutions
• As you do so, you'll create enthusiasm for building great software using principles of open source and agile culture
• you'll support everything from the scoping to delivering the engagements
• This role ideally suits a senior architect, directly involved architect with a passion for coaching teams, design, communication, and delivering complex solutions
• Successful applicants must reside in a country where Red Hat is registered to do business

What you will do

• Deliver successful discovery, analysis, and design workshops for small to medium teams of both technical and non-technical backgrounds that shape and influence customer use cases and architecture design decisions

• Scope delivery projects and guide customers through successful pilot and production deployments

• Lead the discovery, architecture, design, and implementation of application prototypes in our delivery of solutions using modern application development practices and emerging open source technologies

• Help us cover domains including microservices, API management, and web-scale architectures, DevOps engineering and application delivery, container-based continuous delivery (CD), ie, using Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, cloud automation, and Everything as Code

• Team up with Red Hat and the open source community to engineer innovation-based software solutions, designed to further accelerate our customers success at their transformation journey

• Work as a trusted adviser to our customers and use your critical thinking skills to tackle tough problems in an innovative way

• Train and coach team members both on technical and non-technical skills

• Present vision, strategy, technology, and roadmaps to executives, technical management, engineers, and operators

• Remain an active coder as this is required during our engagements and maintain deep direct technical knowledge of container management systems (CMSs), application infrastructure, architectures, and development solutions

• Support presales and post-sales field teams during workshops, proofs of concepts, pilots, and production deployments

• Actively contribute to and guide the creation of reference architectures, design considerations, and best practices

• Assist in the development of standard reusable consulting service offerings, including the definition of tasks, deliverables, and standard estimates

What you will bring

• 10+ years of experience working as a software architect, consulting architect, or in similar roles
• Proven experience architecting, designing, and developing complex customer solutions in a rapidly evolving technology environment
• Experience facilitating software design, architecture, and ideation sessions
• Ability to perform customer-facing activities in a fast-paced environment with short timeframes
• Ability to rapidly create Proof of Concepts and other activities to validate their proposed design
• Ability to uncover business challenges and develop custom solutions to solve these challenges
• Working knowledge of object-oriented design, API design, and design patterns applicable to modern software development
• Leads and coordinates participation in Discovery Sessions for complex projects involving multiple technologies
• Applied knowledge of working with agile culture, implementing frameworks like scrum or XP
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, or other container tools
• Proven experience with software development, including languages, systems, and frameworks like Java, Spring, Quarkus, Python, JMS, Kafka, SQL, NoSQL, and Redis or Infinispan
• Working knowledge of database design
• Work with sales team to build out additional opportunities involving multiple technical disciplines for their existing customers
• Applied knowledge of DevOps culture and practices like test-driven development (TDD), behavior-driven development (BDD), continuous integration (CI), and CD, and automated testing
• Clear understanding of cloud service and deployment models
• Comfortable working with highly distributed teams, including interaction with open source communities
• Ability to study on your own, learn quickly, and put new knowledge into practice
• Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills
• Bachelors degree or higher in computer science or a related technical discipline
• Willingness to travel up to 50% to customer locations throughout India and also globally on occasion, following Red Hat s COVID-19 guidelines
• Excellent written and verbal communication in English

The following will be considered a plus:

• Experience with or knowledge of Red Hat s technologies like Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, Red Hat Fuse, Red Hat 3Scale, Red Hat AMQ, or Red Hat AMQ Streams (Kafka)
• Working with some community technologies like Argo CD, Tekton Pipelines, Helm, or Jenkins
• Working with application and infrastructure monitoring
• Experience with or knowledge of JavaScript, Golang, Python, or Shell Scripting
• Experience with or knowledge of technologies AngularJS, React.js, and Vue.js

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